Microsoft Patents OS Shutdown 404
An anonymous reader writes "You would think that shutting down software could be fairly simple from an end user's view. If I ask you to shut it down, would you mind shutting it actually down, please? Well, it's a bit more complicated than that, because you need to ask the user if they really want to shut down and if unsaved documents should be saved. And that warrants a patent that also covers Mac OS X. Next time you shut down Windows, remember how complicated it is for Windows to shut down. Perhaps that is the reason why this procedure can take minutes in some cases."
Shutdown patents (Score:1, Funny)
When can I, um, patent shutting down the USPTO?
A BSOD Shutdown Too? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why can't I mod the story submission itself? (Score:5, Funny)
Potayto potahto.
Re:Yet OSX shuts down much faster... (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, but an Apple fanboy takes a lot longer to shut up.
Re:Remember this? (Score:3, Funny)
that's been my sigfile for at least 10 years now (on slash), unchanged. I guess today's my day, huh?
(left it intact for this post, as well)
Re:Shutdown patents (Score:3, Funny)
When can I, um, patent shutting down the USPTO?
No, no, you have it wrong. Please patent keeping the Patent Authorities operational and then refuse to licencense that to anybody.
shoot the lawyers (Score:2, Funny)
99.9% of lawyers gave all of them a bad name.
Re:Only 1998? (Score:3, Funny)
RAM gnomes? [wikipedia.org]
Re:Shutdown patents (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I don't understand (Score:2, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, "patent patenting" joke kills YOU!
Re:Hmm (Score:4, Funny)
It's yet another case of Windows taking a "don't tell the user anything, it might scare them" approach.
Are you sure?
Re:Only 1998? (Score:1, Funny)
Didn't you know? The magic of a journaling file system makes RAM non volatile. Either that or Tom Hudson is a fucking moron, and every time he posts, the entire internet gets just a little dumber.
Q: Why can't you patent stupidity? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:BillG hated the concept! (Score:2, Funny)
Bill has a point; it shouldn't take long to save 640k of RAM data.
Re:BillG hated the concept! (Score:4, Funny)
Bill Gates had fight through Tier 1 support like the rest of us? Maybe I've been too hard on the guy.
Re:Remember this? (Score:4, Funny)
A) You assume someone gives a shit about your sig, and more importantly,
B) You got the term wrong. The correct term is "It is now safe to turn off your computer".
You have had the wrong term in your sig for 10 years. If that isn't an Epic Fucking Fail I don't know what is.
Re:Yet OSX shuts down much faster... (Score:2, Funny)
If I want Windows to shut down quickly, I simply launch MS-Outlook.
Re:A BSOD Shutdown Too? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hmm (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Only 1998? (Score:1, Funny)
tomhudson is a chick you fucking douchebag. Now who's the fucking moron?
Re:Hmm (Score:4, Funny)
"sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/kmem bs=8192"
is a lot more fun than just /sbin/halt
--Joe
Re:BillG hated the concept! (Score:3, Funny)
Hehe. Tier-1, not Level-1. Maybe I should stop using that term in my resume, perhaps that explains quite a lot.
Re:Hmm (Score:4, Funny)
Shutting down windows is like a bad breakup. It's a long and drawn-out process, that you wish you could just walk away from, but there's always some unnecessary complication that leaves you wondering why you settled for this in the first place and if you will have the willpower to avoid coming back tomorrow.
Re:Yet OSX shuts down much faster... (Score:4, Funny)